Category: Bodybuilding
How many workouts bodybuilders can skip (without reducing their progression)
Bodybuilders who skip the occasional workout – because they lack the time or inclination – make just as much progress as bodybuilders who never miss a [...]
Borassus aethiopum for bodybuilders?
If you've made the effort to read this post, you may well have a pitch-black bottle of BPI's Solid in your kitchen. One of its ingredients is an extra [...]
Diosgenin, the plant steroid in Smilax and Yam
Twenty or thirty years ago, thousands of bodybuilders took extracts from plants such as Smilax officinalis [sarsaparilla] and Dioscorea esculenta [wil [...]
Bodybuilding with protein-rich diet is healthier
Strength training will result in more muscle mass when combined with a protein-rich diet. Nothing new here, but that strength training combined with a [...]
The anticatabolic effect of glycine
Sports food manufacturers do nothing with the amino acid glycine. To them glycine is at best a pricey filling agent. But this image is not justified, [...]
Human study: Ashwagandha boosts testosterone level
If infertile men take one capsule containing Ashwagandha – Latin name Withania somnifera – every day for a couple of months, their testosterone level [...]
Same amount of protein at every meal gives optimal muscle synthesis
Most people cram most of their daily protein into their evening meal, and consume relatively little protein at breakfast and lunch. If all three meals [...]
Strength training increases success of attempts to quit smoking
People who stop smoking are more often successful if they start strength training at the same time. Researchers at Brown University in the US think th [...]
Get fitter if you use HMB Free Acid with your high-intensity interval training
If the studies done by Metabolic Technologies are to be believed then the muscle-strengthening effect of HMB Free Acid is comparable to that of anabol [...]
Sodium bicarbonate for strength training?
Imagine: a gym near you organises a competition in which you have to do as many reps as possible of bench presses using your own bodyweight. In a case [...]
Q10 protects muscles against statins
According to websites of pharmaceutical companies, the statin atorvastatin 'occasionally' causes side effects such as 'muscle pain, joint pain, muscle [...]
Strength training speeds up cancer patients’ recovery
Doctors are saving the lives of more and more cancer patients, but chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery all have heavy side effects. Patients w [...]
Combine Astragalus with Ginseng to boost the effect of creatine
A combination of Astragalus, Ginseng and creatine works better than creatine on its own. Sports scientists at Wichita State University discovered this [...]
Pycnogenol reduces muscle cramp in athletes
It's not completely convincing, this Italian study on the preventive effect of the supplement Pycnogenol on muscle cramp and muscular pain. But still: [...]
BCAAs can protect smokers’ muscle mass
Smoking is bad for pretty much everything, and that includes your muscles. Researchers at Nara Medical University in Japan made an interesting discove [...]